Teaching
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Study courses
Bachelor of Science 'Environmental Management'
- Management of Nature and Landscapes (Module BP-176)
- Project on Environmetal Protection - Biodiversity (Module BP-069)
- Nature Protection Monitoring (Module BP-099)
- Grassland science (Module BP-028)
Master of Science 'Environmental Sciences', 'Crop Sciences' and 'Transition Management'
- Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes (Module MK-041)
- Grassland Ecology (Module MP-180)
- Agriculture, Ecosystem Functioning and Climate Change (Module MP-211-EN)
International Courses and Excursions
- Landscapes, land use and social culture in Kosovo. - A one-week excursion in Kosovo for German and Kosovar students funded by the DAAD in 2022. (siehe also: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/internationales/auslandsstudium)
- Landscapes and Biodiversity in the Republic of Kosovo and Albania. - 10 days excursions in Kosovo and Albania for German, Kosovar and Albanian students funded by the DAAD in 2019 and 2016.
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Agriculture. - A two-week course at Prishtina University "Hasan Prishtina" in the frame of Prishtina Summer University in July 2017.
- Methods to evaluate environmental impact of agriculture: Two-week courses at Giessen University for advanced students and young scientists from Kosovo and Albania funded by the DAAD in 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2013.
- Landscapes and Biodiversity in the Republic of Kosovo. - A one-week excursion in Kosovo for German and Kosovar students funded by the DAAD in 2013.
- Assessment of Agricultural Impact on Biodiversity. - A one-week course at Prishtina University "Hasan Prishtina" funded by the DAAD in December 2012.
- The Role of Landscape Ecology in Sustainability Science and Sustainable Land Development. - A two-week course at Prishtina University "Hasan Prishtina" in the frame of Prishtina Summer University in July 2009.
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Supervision of Doctoral Theses
First supervisor
- BAIBAGYSOV, A., ongoing thesis: Resource potential and economic value of Common Reed (Phragmites australis) for sustainable rural livelihoods in the Syr Darya River Delta, Kazakhstan.
- FETAHAJ, R., 2023: Drivers of weed diversity on patch and pattern scale in vineyards of Kosovo.
- GÓMEZ MATEUS, A.M., 2021: Analyzing the inclusion of nature in an oil palm plantation: a landscape ecological case study in Mapiripán, Meta, Colombia.
- KRYEZIU, L., ongoing thesis: Production, trade and consumption of mealworms in Kosovo – towards a sustainable agricultural value chain.
- MEHMETI, A., 2009: Arable weed vegetation and germination traits of frequent weeds in Kosovo.
- MEISS, H., 2010: Diversifying crop rotations with temporary grasslands: Potentials for weed management and farmland biodiversity.*
*Binational doctorate (Thèse en cotutelle) at Bourgogne University (Dijon, France) and Giessen University - MIFTARI, I., 2017: Efficiency analysis of alternative agricultural production systems in Kosovo - an ecosystem services approach.
- SHABANI, T., ongoing thesis: Biodiversity-friendly weed management through innovative harvesting technology in organic farming.
- THEISSEN, T., 2023: Landscape structure and dynamics in the Kazbegi region, Greater Caucasus (Georgia), and integrative normative scenario development for future regional land-use systems.
- WELLSTEIN, C., 2006: Einfluss unterschiedlicher Produktionsverfahren auf populationsbiologische Parameter von Pflanzenarten des Grünlandes. The impact of agricultural management practices on population biological features of grassland plant species.
- WIESMAIR, M., 2017: Grassland degradation in the Greater Caucasus: Ecological relationships, remote sensing promises and restoration implications.
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Second supervisor
- SOLOVYEVA, Irina, 2016: Efficiency analysis of farming and its positive environmental externalities in the Ukrainian Carpathians.
- REGER, B., 2008: Analysing agricultural landscape change in a marginal European landscape.
- SIMMERING, D., 2005: Muster der Phytodiversität in einer kleinstrukturierten Mittelgebirgsregion - vom Habitat zur Landschaft. Patterns of phytodiversity in a highly fragmented, low mountainous region - from habitat to landscape.
- FUHR-BOSSDORF, K., 2003: Die Bedeutung der Diasporenbank aktuell und ehemals landwirtschaftlich genutzter Standorte für Vegetationsentwicklungen im Lahn-Dill-Bergland (Hessen). Soil seed banks of recent and former agricultural sites and their impact for vegetation development in the Lahn-Dill-Highlands (Hesse).
- HIETEL, E., 2003: Methodik zur Erarbeitung standörtlicher und sozioökonomischer Indikatoren der Landnutzungsdynamik einer peripheren Region. Method for the elaboration of environmental and socioeconomic indicators of land-use dynamics in a marginal region.
- SCHUBERT, P., 2003: Phänotypische Plastizität und Fitness annueller Ackerwildkrautpopulationen von Standorten unterschiedlicher Nutzungsgeschichte. Phenotypic plasticity and fitness of arable weed populations originating from different agricultural regimes.
- MÜCKSCHEL, C., 2002: Zur Plastizität populationsbiologischer Parameter ausgewählter Magerrasenarten Südthüringens unter Beweidungseinfluss. On the plasticity of population biological features of several plant species in grazed chalk grasslands in Southern Thuringia.